# Selenium with ruby rails and webrat **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [May 27, 2009, 5:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/selenium-with-ruby-rails-and-webrat/168947 "2009-05-27T17:00:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![linewriter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@linewriter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/linewriter)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 5:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/selenium-with-ruby-rails-and-webrat/168947/1 "2009-05-27T17:00:21Z")
Hi, I have set up selenium and webrat with cucumber and ruby rails in Cygwin on Windows DOS machine. I have everything working expect that when I ‘rake’ features, selenium is not starting up any firefox browser. I have attached my sample project for the same. When I do ‘rake features’ I get the below error. It looks like the script itself is getting executed and not being validated by selenium. Unfortunately, I am not a ruby developer and naive wrt selenium. ========================================================================== $ rake features (in /cygdrive/c/work/comcast/workspace/cucumber-test-pro) /usr/bin/ruby.exe -I “/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.3.7/lib:lib” -S rcov --rails –exclude osx/ “/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.3.7/bin/cucumber” – --format pretty features/google\_search.featu Feature: When I am on google page, i should be able to search any string Scenario: Search a string in google # features/google\_search.feature:4 ==\> Waiting for Selenium RC server on port 4444… Ready! Starting app server Given I am on google page # features/step\_definitions/google\_search\_steps.rb:13 Connection refused - connect(2) (Errno::ECONNREFUSED) /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `initialize' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in`open’ /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `connect' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:62:in`timeout’ /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:93:in `timeout' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in`connect’ /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:553:in `do_start' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:542:in`start’ /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1035:in `request' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:845:in`post’ /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:62:in `timeout' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:93:in`timeout’ (eval):2:in `visit' ./features/step_definitions/google_search_steps.rb:2:in`/^I am on google page$/’ features/google\_search.feature:5:in `Given I am on google page’ Then I should be able to search some string # features/step\_definitions/google\_search\_steps.rb:17 1 scenario (1 failed) 2 steps (1 failed, 1 skipped) 76.6% 2 file(s) 69 Lines 47 LOC rake aborted! Command failed with status (1): [/usr/bin/ruby.exe -I "/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1…] # (See full trace by running task with --trace) ---
**Author:** ![linewriter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@linewriter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/linewriter)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 5:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/selenium-with-ruby-rails-and-webrat/168947/2 "2009-05-27T17:51:15Z")
Hurry, I got this solved. One of my colleague pointed out this forum which solved my issue. I modified webrat gem source code to fix this. However, I didnot try webrat config option. I wanted to play with working selenium for some time. Forum ::::: > **[Cucumber, Selenium, Webrat, and Windows](https://formatinternet.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/cucumber-selenium-webrat-and-windows/)** > > I spent last Saturday hacking around with some really smart people in Madrid. It’s not widely known than in Spain there’s a thriving Ruby on Rails community -my guess would be a languag… THanks! Tamil R. wrote: > Hi, > I have set up selenium and webrat with cucumber and ruby rails in Cygwin > on Windows DOS machine. I have everything working expect that when I > ‘rake’ features, selenium is not starting up any firefox browser. > > I have attached my sample project for the same. When I do ‘rake > features’ I get the below error. It looks like the script itself is > getting executed and not being validated by selenium. > > Unfortunately, I am not a ruby developer and naive wrt selenium. > > ========================================================================== > $ rake features > (in /cygdrive/c/work/comcast/workspace/cucumber-test-pro) > /usr/bin/ruby.exe -I > “/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.3.7/lib:lib” -S rcov --rails > –exclude osx/ > “/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.3.7/bin/cucumber” – --format > pretty features/google\_search.featu > Feature: When I am on google page, i should be > able to search any string > > Scenario: Search a string in google # > features/google\_search.feature:4 > ==\> Waiting for Selenium RC server on port 4444… Ready! > Starting app server > Given I am on google page # > features/step\_definitions/google\_search\_steps.rb:13 > Connection refused - connect(2) (Errno::ECONNREFUSED) > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `initialize' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `open’ > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `connect' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:62:in `timeout’ > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:93:in `timeout' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `connect’ > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:553:in `do_start' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:542:in `start’ > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1035:in `request' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:845:in `post’ > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:62:in `timeout' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:93:in `timeout’ > (eval):2:in `visit' ./features/step_definitions/google_search_steps.rb:2:in `/^I am on > google page$/’ > features/google\_search.feature:5:in `Given I am on google page’ > Then I should be able to search some string # > features/step\_definitions/google\_search\_steps.rb:17 > > 1 scenario (1 failed) > 2 steps (1 failed, 1 skipped) > 76.6% 2 file(s) 69 Lines 47 LOC > rake aborted! > Command failed with status (1): [/usr/bin/ruby.exe -I > "/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1…] > > # (See full trace by running task with --trace)